14-year-old suspected of stealing a car facing kidnapping charges

Thursday

May 2, 2019 at 2:56 PM

Joe Goldeen Record Staff Writer @JoeGoldeen

STOCKTON — A 14-year-old boy suspected of stealing a car Wednesday afternoon in northeast Stockton also faces kidnapping charges because the owner’s two young children were in the backseat at the time, police reported.

The children’s mother called police about 5:40 p.m. to report her vehicle with her 3- and 5-year-old children inside had just been stolen from the 1900 block of Pyrenees Avenue, just east of West Lane in a residential neighborhood north of East Hammer Lane.

Officers found the vehicle a short distance from where it had been taken and apprehended the boy after a short foot chase. He was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, auto theft and traffic charges. His name has not been released due to his age.